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The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1943-08-05

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The Amherst News-Times VOL. XXV, NUMBER 32 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943 SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD Convoy Gunner ' Has Advantages Being a navy gunner on board a merchant vessel has its advan- tages, thinks Ed. Bozicevich, Slc, who was home on leave last week. The principal advantage is having more shore leave time than regular navy personnel. Bozicevich has made one convoyed trip to England and return. After his ship docked at the English port the gunners I' went ashore and were on leave until the ship was ready to sail again, which wasn't for nearly a month. During that period the boys had a chance to see England. London is a mass of ruins, he saia. me sections with the big buildings is a mass of wrcc-. kage. Hardly a building escaped the pounding of German bombs earlier in the war. He visited f) Westminster Abbey and all the other prominent places, and said the condition of all of them shows the effects of ' the bombings. The outlying districts of London, however, were not hit by the Germans, and these sections are very beautiful. Almost every home in these sections 'has a tt beautiful garden. There are two amusement parks in Southport where the sailors went, but the sailors went, but went, but the cost of rides was terrifically high. The convoy in which the South Amherst sailor was sighted several subs while on the ocean, but no damage was done to any of the ships. "The warships con- 9 voying us chased them away, or else sunk them with depth charges," he said. So great is the power of a depth charge that a gyser of water half a mile high f is seen when they explode, and ships half a mile away feel the explosion. "In fact, if they're not built right it'll tear plates right off off them," he said. "You should see those destroy-ers when they drop their charges. They drop them and away they go, to get as far away as possible from the explosion and not become damaged from their own 9 charges," he said. All the ships in the convoy are armed, and manned by navy gunners, At regular intervals they hold target parctlce while on the g way across. All the ships have practice at the same time, and the gunners must set the guns at cer tain pre-arranged ranges. As to facilities for loading un loading ships, the local man said the United States Is far ahead of England. There they have none of the latest equipment, and de ' pend on small trucks shoved or pulled by men, while the trucks 9 are all horse-drawn. "They have some beautiful horses, though," he said. There isn't much in the way of street traffic. Taxis comprise most of the vehciles, with only occasionally a private car passing. The private cars are all old models. Bozicevich likes the navy, and likes being aboard a merchant vessel. Friends wanting to write to him should address him as follows: Ed. Bozicevich, Slc, Arm-Guard Center, 1st Ave. and 52nd st., Brooklyn, N. Y. Mail reach- 9 lng there Is held when he is at sea and is not delivered until he returns, so if you don't get an answer right away don't be alarm ed. Gerald Williams, 203 Park-av, has been sent from the reception center at Fort Hayes, Columbus to Camp Callan, California. M E W OF OUR IN UNIFORM Emmerich Stationed On South Sea Island Harold A. Emmerich, member of the U. S. Navy, can't get back to Amherst any too soon, to suit him, so he wrote from some South Pacific Island. He is one person who will return to Amherst and never again long to see any more South Pacific Islands. Emmerich is stationed on one of these islands at the present with a Construction organization. The local sailor was a t Guadalcanal and back to New Zealand for a rest before coming to his new abode. "I have been getting along fine," he wrote, "haven't been sick to amount to anything but will be very glad when this thing is over and we can get back to Amherst. I haven't met anyone from Amherst since I left the States nearly a year ago. I did get a letter from Donald Bechtel the fourth of July. Don was very near here at that time." The address of Emmerick is at the News-Times office. Two "Old Salts" Still Together "Two old Salts" from the outgoing unit at Great Lakes are trying to make us poor civilians want to join the service too by telling us that they are getting all kinds of good food, such as STEAK, HAM and all the trimmings. That sounds almost too good to be true, and all without a ration stamp, too. Well, anyway we're glad that the two local sailors, Ramon 'Bud' Sdumska and Richard 'Dick' Ott are getting their share and taking an extra bite for the folks back home. We'd do the same for them. A letter from the boys this past week Informed us that they are shipmates or at the present are landlubbers in the O.G.U. and as most of their group have been sent out they have become the "old salts" of the unit. They are classified as Eddy men and expect to stay together. They wrote in their combined letter: "We're both on the ball park detail, our hours for work are from 0 o'clock until 11 in the forenoon and 1:30 until 3:30 in the afternoon. We both sleep in the same barracks and we generally get the same liberty together. On liberties we usually go to the neighboring towns which are Wakeaugan, Kenosha, Milwaukee and Chicago. "The only fellows we have run into since we've been here is Hugo Truscello. The three of us get together and lie in the sun and talk over old times. Last night we really had a peach of a time scrubbing and waxing the floors until 12:30. The fellows also said a word about the women thereabout in their vicinity. So it seems they treat the sailors like their own . brothers. "In other words," wrote the sailors, "they're okeh." Dick and Bud sent their greetings to their Amherst friends. Should anyone care to write to their present address it is: Out Going Unit, Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, 111. George Fox, local undertaker, left this morning (Thursday) for Ft. Hayes, Columbus, to bf.'gin army service following his induction three weeks ago fro n a Youngstown draft board. Ftx is the first Amherst businessman to be Inducted. He announced his wife will continue to conduit his business during his absence. f! .H ',. f !','? MUI r, ; ' ;'t! f -' . mm- ' '' Obstacle Course Hardens Seabees What a real hardening up process the men in the Seabees get was told us last week by Clifford Pierce. And Pierce personally showed what it does to a man, for he was tanned thoroughly and his muscles looked hard as rock. "Boy, I surely feel fine," he said. At Camp Peary, Va., where he had his basic training, the men are put through a commando course. They go in threes. The first obstacle is a three to six foot hurdle, then they go down an entrenchment of about 12 ft., over and through some barbed wire entanglement, cross a swamp on logs, go up a wall set at an angle of about 75 degrees with the aid of a rope that you pull yourself up on, then you drop into a pit,and when you' got out of that you grab a rope and swing yourself over a 40 foot pond. Across the pond are another group of hurdles from five to nine feet high, then go up a rope net about 25 feet. Then you go down on a trapeze, grab iron rings attached to ropes and swing yourself across another obstacle. This brings you to a perpen iUcular wall 12 feet high. You jump to reach the top with your hands, pull yourself up and over, then weave through another 50 feet of barbed wire entanglement, then jump over a group of log hurdles 5 to 10 feet high, then hand over hand on a rope about sixty feet. There another rope ladder awaits you, about 40 feet high, with about 25 other men also clambering for a footing. That sounds like quite a lot, and it Is, especially when you must complete the course in five minutes time. Do that twice a day and you can imagine what it does to the muscles of your body. The course is designed to exert every muscle of the body. No wonder these Seabees are ready to meet any foe anywhere. SIX WEEKS IN BOOT The Seabees go through six weeks of boot training, just like any other recruit sailor. Then they are given three weeks of advanced training with a marine in charge. They get all the military training that other fighting men are given. They shoot on the rifle range, go on long hikes, learn the manual of arms, jump off landing barges into three feet of water with a full pack on their back, scamper ashore as quickly as possible and zig fcag from tree to tree. "All this training puts men in darned good shape. I feel the best I've ever felt in my life. We also get good eats and plenty of it," Pieice said. Those all day hikes are also something to remember, he told us. A marine is in charge when they start out early in the morning: All day long they are not given any water to drink, and there are only two five minute rest periods, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The, Seabees also train loading and unloading a boat which is a duplicate of a Liberty ship. Day and night this work goes on, with two shifts. They load it, then unload it, just to know how to do it when their time comes. The day starts at 5:15 a. m. and ends at 5:30 p. m., with lights out at 9:30. "We live by navy rules, do what the army does, and are trained by the marines," he said. NEW ADDRESS The new address of Walter R. Stargel who recently entered the navy is F3c, 308 U. S., M8-4, Service School, U.S.N.T.S., Great Lakes, 111. Local Teachers Have New Jobs Several changes in the teaching positions of Amherst school teachers was learned this week. ' Miss Thelma Mays who has been on the faculty of Amherst high school for the past five years has resigned to accept a contract to teach in the Elyria high school. Miss Mays will be instructing English in her new school. Amherst high school students will be sorry to see her leave as she was very well liked by all. She taught high school English and Economics and junior high English and geography. This summer she has been studying at the University of Southern Calif.' Miss Mays is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mays of Park-av. George L. Thourot, principal of the Brownhelm high school for the past 11 years, has also accepted a new position in Elyria high school. He is replacing W. E. Gregory as physics teacher. South Amherst Board of Edu cation announced this week that it has hired J. E. Hiatt, 132Har-vard-av, Elyria, as athletic coach and teacher of industrial arts in the South Amherst high school. Hiatt succeeds Howard Bahr of Oberlin, industrial arts teacher, who resigned to accept an appointment to the faculty of Kip-ton high school and Edgar Garvin, former coach at South Amherst, who also resigned. His future plans arc uncertain. South Amherst's new coach graduated from Ohio University in 1942 and taught at Murray City school the first part of 1942-43 school year before being inducted into the army. He received an honorable discharge. Stu Fairchild of Brownhelm, ! uc ei:,P10ces "l -ly." , ou,,urt 1 ,c , J"-tu,c who has been assistant coach at show; a,l,0,,,? ?f 'JU oth that.was kept busy all after-Oberlin high school, was named noon' Lowe,r left ,s . llke oTuT"6" head basketball coach this year. He has been teaching mathematics there for the past two years, following his graduation from Brownhelm high school andBaldwin-Wallace college. Fairchild is planning to continue his present work at the Shipyard and to coach basketball part time. The complete list of the Amherst public school faculty for the 1943-44 season has not been announced by the local Board of Education. There will be several changes as Miss Betty Sheets, art teacher, has resigned to join the WAVES, Miss Mays has accepted a position In Elyria, Mrs. Nelson Witt, third grade teacher, has left for Arizona and Coach Robert Hubbard has received a commission in the U. S. Navy Reserves.Test Dimout Will De Held August 17 Amherst's next practice dimout will be held Tuesday night, August 17th, according to present plans of the local defense council. The date, however, is only tentative and may be changed at next Monday night's meeting. Commander Charles Kendeigh has asked that heads of all departments attend the meeting next Monday when test incidents for the various services will be planned. The defense council has decided upon a Keystone signal phone to be attached to the air system at the U. S. Automatic plant. Before purchasing they would like to have the signal installed and a test made of the radius over which it can be heard. The signal is said to be audible over a radius of half a mile, which would be adequate to warn the southeastern part of the village. The council plans to use other means of warnings in other sections. ANNUAL MEETING The annual congregational meeting of the First Evangelical church will be held next Wednesday at 8 o'clock. Reports of the various organizations of the church wili be given, and election of two trustees will be held. DO YOU KNOW YOUR FOUR F's? AUTOMATIC EMPLOYEES AT ANNUAL PICNIC h w fry ;n. n.. :! , . . . j-... ..M ,y -"'biiiHHJ I I Here are three scenes from the annual picnic of U. S. Auto-1 . i . r i n l i ... c i.... xl. : ing contest. Lower ngni snows umi i icuer wnuse msiy voice announced the different races and events. 49 Amherst People Donate Blood To Red Cross Bauk Call for blood donors in Amherst has not been too well responded to so it was learned this 'week. Checking over recent re cords we learned that the number of blood donnors has fallen short of their previous numbers. It is believed that the reason for this is due to the fact of lack of transportation. Mrs. E. E. Foster, chairman of the local chapter of the Red Cross, related that she believed that if it could be possible to bring the Blood Bank to town, all available Amherst citizens would respond to the call. Approximately 49 Amherst people journeyed to Lorain this week to give blood in the latest call for donors, special recognition is to be given to three Amherst ladies who have given freely of their blood. Three Amherst women have now donated blood six times to the blood bank. Mrs. Vera Sharp made her sixth donation this week, while at the previous visit in June, Mrs. Vera Lauver and Mrs. Irene Brown, both nurses at the hospital, made their sixth do nation. Any Amherst people who are in terested in signing for blood do nations may do so with Mrs. E. E. Foster of Clevcland-av or at the Blood Donors office in the Lorain Red Cross office in the Broadway Building in Lorain. The Bank has been coming into Lorain practically every sixs 'heir difficulties can be solv- weeks. It is necessary to be over 110 pounds, refrain from food for four hours before the donation, and free of colds or flue for three weeks. Bank Announces Friday Night Hours Friday night banking hours were announced this week by the Amherst branch of The Lorain County Savings and Trust Co. The bank will be open from 6:30 to 8 o'clock to accomodate war workers and others unable to get to the bank during the regular banking hours. The bank will be open for the first time tomorrow night, and continue to be open Friday nights until further announcement. mm 111 En l.,. IE or j -f'ti rV 4 ' j ; V ' V, VJ 1 ' ' ' . 1 1 The need for increased blood donations is rising each day the war continues. And its benefits are told and retold by Amherst's own soldiers who are on the fighting fronts. They and their buddies make the plea that the folks back home give what they can so an injured friend might' recover from illness and injury and return to his loved ones. Any further information the public might need concerning the requirements for donating blood will be willingly furnished both locally and by the Lorain Chapter of the Red Cross. Two Local Meat Markets Close Two Amherst meat markets temporarily closed this week, and the two shops remaining open had to divide their quota of fresh meat among a larger number of customers. Math Gerger has been closed since Monday while making repairs to the ceiling of his slaughter house, and the fresh meat counter at Berk's grocery announced it would close a ssoon as present supplies were sold out. The fresh meat counter closed due to lack of a meat cutter and the shortage of help generally in the store. Both places will reopen as soon I ed. Gergel expected his slaughter house to be repaired in time for reopening about August 17th, while Berk said he hoped by Oct. 1st have his help situation reme died and would be able to sell fresh meat again by that time, The situation at Berk's store was made worse by the fact some of his clerks will return to school next month, leaving the store short-manned. Berk said he will continue to sell cold lunch meats, weiners, smoked hams and ba con, but until a meat cutter was available would not be able to handle fresh meats VISIT DAUGIITER Mr. and Mrs. Fred Holzhauer of East-st visited their daughter, Miss Wilma at Bowling Green college where she is taking the summer course. Big Crowd At Shop Employees Annual Picnic The annual picnic of U. S. Automatic employees had all the as- pects of an Amherst Day picnic. The shop committee in charge of j the event had invited all residents of the town to attend since the annual Amherst Day affair has been suspended for the dura tion, and from the appearance of the crowd at the park, Amherst residents took full advantage of the invitation. The size of the crowd will al- ways be a matter of speculation, since they were scattered over I the entire park, but estimates of from 1,000 to 2,000 people were freely made. Everyone seems agreed that it was not less than the smaller figure with every possibility that the crowd exceeded that number. Picnickers arrived early in the afternoon, and park concessions were kept busy throughout the anernoon ana evening. All the Popular rides had lines waiting to Cot on. even rfnrino fho nnrlnrl get on, even during the period when the races and contests were being held. Free dancing in the afternoon was also a big attraction. Not even the hot weather could keep eager feet from keeping step with the music. The five $25 War Bonds given a? prizes in the grand drawing were won by Alvira Mclntyre, Dwight Standen, John Birich, Rose Bogardy and Rose Milettl. CONTEST WINNERS Other prize winners were: 50 yard dash for boys Richard Mar shall and Edward Ellis, Jr.; 50 yard dash for girls Shirley Henry and Rita Henry; baseball throw for women Elizabeth Kerepesi and Marge Zukowski; largest family on grounds Rudolph Ber-ger, with a tie for second prize between Mrs. Andrew Marks and Ashley Slack. 50 yard dish for male employ ees John Kapucinski and Andy fVf "0 yard dash for womeav employees, Agnes Henry and Sylvia Mathes; oldest male and fe male employee William Weich-el (71 years) and Mrs. Martha Nickel ( 59 years); nail driving contest Mrs. O. W. Lee and Mrs. Walter Werner; 50 yard dash for boys Bob Meesig and Donald Jenkins; 50 yard dash for womenAgnes Henry and Mrs. W. Baker. Youngest boy and youngest girl on the grounds Dale Edwin Jones and Ella May Canada; 50 yard dash for men JOE IGNAT and Joe Beres; clothes pin contestMrs. Mary Schwitzke and Mrse. George Wenzel; fat men's race Harry Early and Elmer Fleming. Ask For Local Ration Board Amherst business men will at tempt to secure a branch ration ing board in Amherst. A committee consisting of Roy Harr, president of the association, Wer ner Zilch and Ed Foster was appointed to see Walter Wright In an effort to secure a board for the town. The business men pointed out that the Lorain board covers a larger population than any other board in the county, and Amherst people frequently must wait la line several hours before they can receive the attention of a clerk. They also said a saving In gasoline would result if a local board could be appointed to handle Amherst requirements. The business men also voted to request parcel post delivery In town. This request must be made in a letter from the association to the postmaster. Lee Menz was appointed a trustee of the Amherst Community and War Fund to take the place of Rev. C. E. Schmidt. The Amherst Boy Scout troop will again be sponsored by the business men. The scouts are a beneficiary of the Community Fund. RETURNED HOME Mrs. Albert Schmltz returned home Sunday evening from Portland, Oregon where she had been visiting her brother, pfc. Joseph T. McCrann who is stationed there with the army air force. t

The Amherst News-Times VOL. XXV, NUMBER 32 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943 SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD Convoy Gunner ' Has Advantages Being a navy gunner on board a merchant vessel has its advan- tages, thinks Ed. Bozicevich, Slc, who was home on leave last week. The principal advantage is having more shore leave time than regular navy personnel. Bozicevich has made one convoyed trip to England and return. After his ship docked at the English port the gunners I' went ashore and were on leave until the ship was ready to sail again, which wasn't for nearly a month. During that period the boys had a chance to see England. London is a mass of ruins, he saia. me sections with the big buildings is a mass of wrcc-. kage. Hardly a building escaped the pounding of German bombs earlier in the war. He visited f) Westminster Abbey and all the other prominent places, and said the condition of all of them shows the effects of ' the bombings. The outlying districts of London, however, were not hit by the Germans, and these sections are very beautiful. Almost every home in these sections 'has a tt beautiful garden. There are two amusement parks in Southport where the sailors went, but the sailors went, but went, but the cost of rides was terrifically high. The convoy in which the South Amherst sailor was sighted several subs while on the ocean, but no damage was done to any of the ships. "The warships con- 9 voying us chased them away, or else sunk them with depth charges," he said. So great is the power of a depth charge that a gyser of water half a mile high f is seen when they explode, and ships half a mile away feel the explosion. "In fact, if they're not built right it'll tear plates right off off them," he said. "You should see those destroy-ers when they drop their charges. They drop them and away they go, to get as far away as possible from the explosion and not become damaged from their own 9 charges," he said. All the ships in the convoy are armed, and manned by navy gunners, At regular intervals they hold target parctlce while on the g way across. All the ships have practice at the same time, and the gunners must set the guns at cer tain pre-arranged ranges. As to facilities for loading un loading ships, the local man said the United States Is far ahead of England. There they have none of the latest equipment, and de ' pend on small trucks shoved or pulled by men, while the trucks 9 are all horse-drawn. "They have some beautiful horses, though," he said. There isn't much in the way of street traffic. Taxis comprise most of the vehciles, with only occasionally a private car passing. The private cars are all old models. Bozicevich likes the navy, and likes being aboard a merchant vessel. Friends wanting to write to him should address him as follows: Ed. Bozicevich, Slc, Arm-Guard Center, 1st Ave. and 52nd st., Brooklyn, N. Y. Mail reach- 9 lng there Is held when he is at sea and is not delivered until he returns, so if you don't get an answer right away don't be alarm ed. Gerald Williams, 203 Park-av, has been sent from the reception center at Fort Hayes, Columbus to Camp Callan, California. M E W OF OUR IN UNIFORM Emmerich Stationed On South Sea Island Harold A. Emmerich, member of the U. S. Navy, can't get back to Amherst any too soon, to suit him, so he wrote from some South Pacific Island. He is one person who will return to Amherst and never again long to see any more South Pacific Islands. Emmerich is stationed on one of these islands at the present with a Construction organization. The local sailor was a t Guadalcanal and back to New Zealand for a rest before coming to his new abode. "I have been getting along fine," he wrote, "haven't been sick to amount to anything but will be very glad when this thing is over and we can get back to Amherst. I haven't met anyone from Amherst since I left the States nearly a year ago. I did get a letter from Donald Bechtel the fourth of July. Don was very near here at that time." The address of Emmerick is at the News-Times office. Two "Old Salts" Still Together "Two old Salts" from the outgoing unit at Great Lakes are trying to make us poor civilians want to join the service too by telling us that they are getting all kinds of good food, such as STEAK, HAM and all the trimmings. That sounds almost too good to be true, and all without a ration stamp, too. Well, anyway we're glad that the two local sailors, Ramon 'Bud' Sdumska and Richard 'Dick' Ott are getting their share and taking an extra bite for the folks back home. We'd do the same for them. A letter from the boys this past week Informed us that they are shipmates or at the present are landlubbers in the O.G.U. and as most of their group have been sent out they have become the "old salts" of the unit. They are classified as Eddy men and expect to stay together. They wrote in their combined letter: "We're both on the ball park detail, our hours for work are from 0 o'clock until 11 in the forenoon and 1:30 until 3:30 in the afternoon. We both sleep in the same barracks and we generally get the same liberty together. On liberties we usually go to the neighboring towns which are Wakeaugan, Kenosha, Milwaukee and Chicago. "The only fellows we have run into since we've been here is Hugo Truscello. The three of us get together and lie in the sun and talk over old times. Last night we really had a peach of a time scrubbing and waxing the floors until 12:30. The fellows also said a word about the women thereabout in their vicinity. So it seems they treat the sailors like their own . brothers. "In other words," wrote the sailors, "they're okeh." Dick and Bud sent their greetings to their Amherst friends. Should anyone care to write to their present address it is: Out Going Unit, Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, 111. George Fox, local undertaker, left this morning (Thursday) for Ft. Hayes, Columbus, to bf.'gin army service following his induction three weeks ago fro n a Youngstown draft board. Ftx is the first Amherst businessman to be Inducted. He announced his wife will continue to conduit his business during his absence. f! .H ',. f !','? MUI r, ; ' ;'t! f -' . mm- ' '' Obstacle Course Hardens Seabees What a real hardening up process the men in the Seabees get was told us last week by Clifford Pierce. And Pierce personally showed what it does to a man, for he was tanned thoroughly and his muscles looked hard as rock. "Boy, I surely feel fine," he said. At Camp Peary, Va., where he had his basic training, the men are put through a commando course. They go in threes. The first obstacle is a three to six foot hurdle, then they go down an entrenchment of about 12 ft., over and through some barbed wire entanglement, cross a swamp on logs, go up a wall set at an angle of about 75 degrees with the aid of a rope that you pull yourself up on, then you drop into a pit,and when you' got out of that you grab a rope and swing yourself over a 40 foot pond. Across the pond are another group of hurdles from five to nine feet high, then go up a rope net about 25 feet. Then you go down on a trapeze, grab iron rings attached to ropes and swing yourself across another obstacle. This brings you to a perpen iUcular wall 12 feet high. You jump to reach the top with your hands, pull yourself up and over, then weave through another 50 feet of barbed wire entanglement, then jump over a group of log hurdles 5 to 10 feet high, then hand over hand on a rope about sixty feet. There another rope ladder awaits you, about 40 feet high, with about 25 other men also clambering for a footing. That sounds like quite a lot, and it Is, especially when you must complete the course in five minutes time. Do that twice a day and you can imagine what it does to the muscles of your body. The course is designed to exert every muscle of the body. No wonder these Seabees are ready to meet any foe anywhere. SIX WEEKS IN BOOT The Seabees go through six weeks of boot training, just like any other recruit sailor. Then they are given three weeks of advanced training with a marine in charge. They get all the military training that other fighting men are given. They shoot on the rifle range, go on long hikes, learn the manual of arms, jump off landing barges into three feet of water with a full pack on their back, scamper ashore as quickly as possible and zig fcag from tree to tree. "All this training puts men in darned good shape. I feel the best I've ever felt in my life. We also get good eats and plenty of it," Pieice said. Those all day hikes are also something to remember, he told us. A marine is in charge when they start out early in the morning: All day long they are not given any water to drink, and there are only two five minute rest periods, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The, Seabees also train loading and unloading a boat which is a duplicate of a Liberty ship. Day and night this work goes on, with two shifts. They load it, then unload it, just to know how to do it when their time comes. The day starts at 5:15 a. m. and ends at 5:30 p. m., with lights out at 9:30. "We live by navy rules, do what the army does, and are trained by the marines," he said. NEW ADDRESS The new address of Walter R. Stargel who recently entered the navy is F3c, 308 U. S., M8-4, Service School, U.S.N.T.S., Great Lakes, 111. Local Teachers Have New Jobs Several changes in the teaching positions of Amherst school teachers was learned this week. ' Miss Thelma Mays who has been on the faculty of Amherst high school for the past five years has resigned to accept a contract to teach in the Elyria high school. Miss Mays will be instructing English in her new school. Amherst high school students will be sorry to see her leave as she was very well liked by all. She taught high school English and Economics and junior high English and geography. This summer she has been studying at the University of Southern Calif.' Miss Mays is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mays of Park-av. George L. Thourot, principal of the Brownhelm high school for the past 11 years, has also accepted a new position in Elyria high school. He is replacing W. E. Gregory as physics teacher. South Amherst Board of Edu cation announced this week that it has hired J. E. Hiatt, 132Har-vard-av, Elyria, as athletic coach and teacher of industrial arts in the South Amherst high school. Hiatt succeeds Howard Bahr of Oberlin, industrial arts teacher, who resigned to accept an appointment to the faculty of Kip-ton high school and Edgar Garvin, former coach at South Amherst, who also resigned. His future plans arc uncertain. South Amherst's new coach graduated from Ohio University in 1942 and taught at Murray City school the first part of 1942-43 school year before being inducted into the army. He received an honorable discharge. Stu Fairchild of Brownhelm, ! uc ei:,P10ces "l -ly." , ou,,urt 1 ,c , J"-tu,c who has been assistant coach at show; a,l,0,,,? ?f 'JU oth that.was kept busy all after-Oberlin high school, was named noon' Lowe,r left ,s . llke oTuT"6" head basketball coach this year. He has been teaching mathematics there for the past two years, following his graduation from Brownhelm high school andBaldwin-Wallace college. Fairchild is planning to continue his present work at the Shipyard and to coach basketball part time. The complete list of the Amherst public school faculty for the 1943-44 season has not been announced by the local Board of Education. There will be several changes as Miss Betty Sheets, art teacher, has resigned to join the WAVES, Miss Mays has accepted a position In Elyria, Mrs. Nelson Witt, third grade teacher, has left for Arizona and Coach Robert Hubbard has received a commission in the U. S. Navy Reserves.Test Dimout Will De Held August 17 Amherst's next practice dimout will be held Tuesday night, August 17th, according to present plans of the local defense council. The date, however, is only tentative and may be changed at next Monday night's meeting. Commander Charles Kendeigh has asked that heads of all departments attend the meeting next Monday when test incidents for the various services will be planned. The defense council has decided upon a Keystone signal phone to be attached to the air system at the U. S. Automatic plant. Before purchasing they would like to have the signal installed and a test made of the radius over which it can be heard. The signal is said to be audible over a radius of half a mile, which would be adequate to warn the southeastern part of the village. The council plans to use other means of warnings in other sections. ANNUAL MEETING The annual congregational meeting of the First Evangelical church will be held next Wednesday at 8 o'clock. Reports of the various organizations of the church wili be given, and election of two trustees will be held. DO YOU KNOW YOUR FOUR F's? AUTOMATIC EMPLOYEES AT ANNUAL PICNIC h w fry ;n. n.. :! , . . . j-... ..M ,y -"'biiiHHJ I I Here are three scenes from the annual picnic of U. S. Auto-1 . i . r i n l i ... c i.... xl. : ing contest. Lower ngni snows umi i icuer wnuse msiy voice announced the different races and events. 49 Amherst People Donate Blood To Red Cross Bauk Call for blood donors in Amherst has not been too well responded to so it was learned this 'week. Checking over recent re cords we learned that the number of blood donnors has fallen short of their previous numbers. It is believed that the reason for this is due to the fact of lack of transportation. Mrs. E. E. Foster, chairman of the local chapter of the Red Cross, related that she believed that if it could be possible to bring the Blood Bank to town, all available Amherst citizens would respond to the call. Approximately 49 Amherst people journeyed to Lorain this week to give blood in the latest call for donors, special recognition is to be given to three Amherst ladies who have given freely of their blood. Three Amherst women have now donated blood six times to the blood bank. Mrs. Vera Sharp made her sixth donation this week, while at the previous visit in June, Mrs. Vera Lauver and Mrs. Irene Brown, both nurses at the hospital, made their sixth do nation. Any Amherst people who are in terested in signing for blood do nations may do so with Mrs. E. E. Foster of Clevcland-av or at the Blood Donors office in the Lorain Red Cross office in the Broadway Building in Lorain. The Bank has been coming into Lorain practically every sixs 'heir difficulties can be solv- weeks. It is necessary to be over 110 pounds, refrain from food for four hours before the donation, and free of colds or flue for three weeks. Bank Announces Friday Night Hours Friday night banking hours were announced this week by the Amherst branch of The Lorain County Savings and Trust Co. The bank will be open from 6:30 to 8 o'clock to accomodate war workers and others unable to get to the bank during the regular banking hours. The bank will be open for the first time tomorrow night, and continue to be open Friday nights until further announcement. mm 111 En l.,. IE or j -f'ti rV 4 ' j ; V ' V, VJ 1 ' ' ' . 1 1 The need for increased blood donations is rising each day the war continues. And its benefits are told and retold by Amherst's own soldiers who are on the fighting fronts. They and their buddies make the plea that the folks back home give what they can so an injured friend might' recover from illness and injury and return to his loved ones. Any further information the public might need concerning the requirements for donating blood will be willingly furnished both locally and by the Lorain Chapter of the Red Cross. Two Local Meat Markets Close Two Amherst meat markets temporarily closed this week, and the two shops remaining open had to divide their quota of fresh meat among a larger number of customers. Math Gerger has been closed since Monday while making repairs to the ceiling of his slaughter house, and the fresh meat counter at Berk's grocery announced it would close a ssoon as present supplies were sold out. The fresh meat counter closed due to lack of a meat cutter and the shortage of help generally in the store. Both places will reopen as soon I ed. Gergel expected his slaughter house to be repaired in time for reopening about August 17th, while Berk said he hoped by Oct. 1st have his help situation reme died and would be able to sell fresh meat again by that time, The situation at Berk's store was made worse by the fact some of his clerks will return to school next month, leaving the store short-manned. Berk said he will continue to sell cold lunch meats, weiners, smoked hams and ba con, but until a meat cutter was available would not be able to handle fresh meats VISIT DAUGIITER Mr. and Mrs. Fred Holzhauer of East-st visited their daughter, Miss Wilma at Bowling Green college where she is taking the summer course. Big Crowd At Shop Employees Annual Picnic The annual picnic of U. S. Automatic employees had all the as- pects of an Amherst Day picnic. The shop committee in charge of j the event had invited all residents of the town to attend since the annual Amherst Day affair has been suspended for the dura tion, and from the appearance of the crowd at the park, Amherst residents took full advantage of the invitation. The size of the crowd will al- ways be a matter of speculation, since they were scattered over I the entire park, but estimates of from 1,000 to 2,000 people were freely made. Everyone seems agreed that it was not less than the smaller figure with every possibility that the crowd exceeded that number. Picnickers arrived early in the afternoon, and park concessions were kept busy throughout the anernoon ana evening. All the Popular rides had lines waiting to Cot on. even rfnrino fho nnrlnrl get on, even during the period when the races and contests were being held. Free dancing in the afternoon was also a big attraction. Not even the hot weather could keep eager feet from keeping step with the music. The five $25 War Bonds given a? prizes in the grand drawing were won by Alvira Mclntyre, Dwight Standen, John Birich, Rose Bogardy and Rose Milettl. CONTEST WINNERS Other prize winners were: 50 yard dash for boys Richard Mar shall and Edward Ellis, Jr.; 50 yard dash for girls Shirley Henry and Rita Henry; baseball throw for women Elizabeth Kerepesi and Marge Zukowski; largest family on grounds Rudolph Ber-ger, with a tie for second prize between Mrs. Andrew Marks and Ashley Slack. 50 yard dish for male employ ees John Kapucinski and Andy fVf "0 yard dash for womeav employees, Agnes Henry and Sylvia Mathes; oldest male and fe male employee William Weich-el (71 years) and Mrs. Martha Nickel ( 59 years); nail driving contest Mrs. O. W. Lee and Mrs. Walter Werner; 50 yard dash for boys Bob Meesig and Donald Jenkins; 50 yard dash for womenAgnes Henry and Mrs. W. Baker. Youngest boy and youngest girl on the grounds Dale Edwin Jones and Ella May Canada; 50 yard dash for men JOE IGNAT and Joe Beres; clothes pin contestMrs. Mary Schwitzke and Mrse. George Wenzel; fat men's race Harry Early and Elmer Fleming. Ask For Local Ration Board Amherst business men will at tempt to secure a branch ration ing board in Amherst. A committee consisting of Roy Harr, president of the association, Wer ner Zilch and Ed Foster was appointed to see Walter Wright In an effort to secure a board for the town. The business men pointed out that the Lorain board covers a larger population than any other board in the county, and Amherst people frequently must wait la line several hours before they can receive the attention of a clerk. They also said a saving In gasoline would result if a local board could be appointed to handle Amherst requirements. The business men also voted to request parcel post delivery In town. This request must be made in a letter from the association to the postmaster. Lee Menz was appointed a trustee of the Amherst Community and War Fund to take the place of Rev. C. E. Schmidt. The Amherst Boy Scout troop will again be sponsored by the business men. The scouts are a beneficiary of the Community Fund. RETURNED HOME Mrs. Albert Schmltz returned home Sunday evening from Portland, Oregon where she had been visiting her brother, pfc. Joseph T. McCrann who is stationed there with the army air force. t